Reviving a computer with a crashed Windows OS

When you have an older PC still in use and one day on start up it fails to boot, what can you do? You can solve the problem of not booting by reloading the operating system. Before you do that though, you had better get your files back using a program for crashed hard drive recovery. A decent application to recover files from crashed hard drives can start your computer from the CD drive, access files stored on your hard drive and enable you to safely copy that information out to separate storage. Then you can reload the OS to your hard drive, move your old files back to it and be ready to go again.